
Clara Lemlich
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 42 years ago |
Date of birth | March 28,1888 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Horodok |
Ukraine | |
Date of died | July 12,1982 |
Died | Los Angeles |
California | |
United States | |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Leader of the Uprising of the 20,000 |
Children | Rita Shavelson Margules |
Irving Charles Velson | |
Martha Shavelson Schaffer | |
Job | Union organizer |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 537828 |
Clara Lemlich Life story
Clara Lemlich Shavelson was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909. Later blacklisted from the industry for her labor union work, she became a member of the Communist Party USA and a consumer activist.